As the Bloomberg news agency managed to find out, official Brussels intends to introduce a package of sanctions against Iran for supplying ballistic missiles to the aggressor country of the Russian Federation.
Points of attention
- The EU continues to put pressure on Iran, including sanctions.
- The US is also preparing to impose sanctions on Iran for provocative actions, including the recent strike on Israel.
- The head of the European Council has already put forward clear demands to Tehran.
Iran will come under new EU sanctions
According to journalist insiders, the first package of measures will affect about a dozen individuals and legal entities.
It is important to understand that, first of all, we are talking about machine-building, metallurgical and aviation companies.
Restrictions from the EU will be the first response to the provision of missiles, and additional lists are currently being considered, the interlocutors of the journalists noted.
Another anonymous source told reporters that the United States plans to separately impose sanctions on Iran for its recent strike on Israel.
Moreover, official Washington insists that the allies do the same.
More and more countries are imposing sanctions against Iran
As already mentioned earlier, on September 10, the American authorities officially confirmed the fact of the supply of ballistic missiles to Russia from Iran.
According to the US, this indicates further deepening of military relations between Moscow and Tehran.
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, handed the member states a proposal for sanctions for Iran's transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia.
Great Britain and the USA have already announced their sanctions packages against Iran and Russia.
Moreover, on September 23, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, met in New York with the president of Iran, Massoud Pezeshkian, and during the meeting, he tried to put pressure on him regarding the supply of missiles to Russia for the war against Ukraine.
According to journalists, Michel told Pezeshkian that relations between Iran and Europe are at their lowest point.
He pressed the Iranian president on issues of human rights, the nuclear program, regional destabilization, the supply of missiles and European prisoners in Iran.
